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A97166	A brief narration of the plotting, beginning & carrying on of that execrable rebellion and butcherie in Ireland. With the unheard of devilish-cruelties and massacres by the Irish-rebels, exercised upon the Protestants and English there. Faithfully collected out of depositions, taken by commissioners under the Great Seal of Ireland. Hereunto are added observations, discovering the actions of the late King; and manifesting the concernment of the Protestant-army now imployed in Ireland. Published by special authority.	Waring, Thomas, 17th cent.	1650 (1650)	Wing W873; Thomason E596_2; ESTC R204016	31,881	70

and others to solicite with his Majesty in their behalf which it seems they did so effectually that they in his Majesties name encouraged the Rebels as may appear by a signal Deposition of Col. Iepson Who saw two Letters of theirs sent to Muskery intimating That though it did not stand with the conveniency of his Majesties affairs to give him publick countenance yet his Majesty was pleased with what he did and would in good time give him thanks for it This though discovered to the Lord Falkland then Secretary and though Colonel Iepson stayed a week after in Oxford was so coldly entertained that neither the Colonel was called to account nor the Lords lessened of their freedom and favour Nay the said Taaff was afterwards imployed with Roch and Brent two active Papists taking with them Colonel Barry one of the same fry to carry the Kings letters from Oxford to Dublin From whence they made away for Kilkeny where there was to be soon after a generall assembly of the Rebels which Errand when they had performed Barry was left Leaguer at Kilkenny Taaff returned to Dublin Taaff with divers of disaffected Privy-Councellours of Ireland meets at Ormonds house to debate the Irish Propositions and Brent returns to Oxford to give an account of the Negotiation By this we may the better conceive what the King meant by that delusory offer to go into Ireland Whether it were under this plausible pretence to get a Guard about him and by that degree a considerable force or when he was once there either to make a Cessation advantageous to himself or else to joyn with them however it was a pretence good enough to decline Signings and Confessions advantagious to his subjects in England and increase Jealousies at home and retard the businesse of the Parliament then in full heat and action whatever it were Certain it is that there lurkt within it somewhat of deep design and very exquisite mischief For even the very Rebels could without Prospective see it and without a Divel foretell it For Tirlogh ô Neal could as appears by Master Stewarts examination taken the eighth day of July 1643. tell that the King was to be soon in Ireland and Sir Phelim ô Neal could give out that the troubles of England would ere long call away Leisley to assist them Nor is it any wonder that these people were so perfect in the Kings designs and so fore-seeing of our troubles when they were part both of the interest and Plot that in deed if you will take their own words the Kings cause and theirs were fundamentally and really one though pollitically and spetiously devided How else should Tirlogh ô Neal and Roger ô Moore as is in Master Stewarts mentioned Deposition say That Religion the Lands escheated and the Kings Prerogative were the prime causes of their rising in Arms That they knew well the best in England would side with them That they had good warrant in black and white for what they did That when he objected the Power of England would he brought against them they replied That there was little feare of that for the troubles in England were but then in beginning and would not end in haste And how else could Rory Maguyre say That they the Parliament invaded the Kings Prerogative in which their greatest security reposed That this great undertaking was never an act of one or two giddy silly fellowes They had their party in England Scotland c. which should soon be as deep in bloud as themselves That the Plot had been of ancient date and many times discontinued and but lately revived and prosecuted from Candelmas last past Note the time of Gormanston and the rest procuring the five Counties before the Rebellion both in England and Scotland All is deposed by that Apostate Awdley Mervin whose sister Maguire married who heard it from many more as himself deposeth of considerable quality Nay Why did they of the Palle declare to joyn with the Irish to recover to his Majesty his Royall Prerogative wrung from him by the Puritan faction Why was the Design called the Queens pious intentions Decl. 9. March 1641. Why did Rossetti the Popes Nuncio enjoyn Fasting and Prayer amongst the Papists Why were the Protestants called Rebells to the Queen How came the Rebells to assume the Kings Authority Nay boldly aver they had his Commission Insomuch that the Major of Kinsale writes That they uttered things concerning the Court of England which he durst not put to Paper And now let any man lay his hand upon his heart and say whether or no he can acquit this man of these things Certainly ignorance in this case could not be pretended even to people that had but the bare use of common sence and to be passive in a businesse of this nature must needs be a sin not much lesse than violent action But to give encouragement and groth to such abominable Monsters as from what has been layd down must needs be clear to every dispassioned Judgment especially since such uncontrolable presumption may serve in the works of darknesse is such an offence that it must needs lead any sober and searching mind in a clear trace of the Divine vengeance upon it God indeed is secret marvelous in executing his wrath and many times openly punisheth unknown crimes and many times dissembles the seeing of crying offences But in this case both the one and the other were equally visible and we may without uncharitablenesse affirm That for these things was this man rooted out of the Land We have now viewed him on the Divels-side of the Meddal let us now behold him on the Saintside and find out one of the most illustrous dissimulations that ever attested Piety a dissimulation which a Heathen under the crepusculous daies of nature would have started back at and have immagined it either beyond punishment or els meriting Judgments and Torments severer than any he knew A dissimulation by a Protestant King in behalf of Traiterous Papists and that to lull and stupifie his own subjects and of his own Religion into bloud and destruction The minds of men were not yet so exquisitely debauched but they were open to the serious manifestation of their Representatives nor the Kings businesse in such a posture that he might declare and justifie his proceedings nor his Innocencie such as he might vindicate himself And therefore to these Remonstrative objections of the Parliament he had nothing to say but such whole peals of solemn and dire imprecations as if he thought Perjury lawfull and essentiall to his calling Or else Divinity to be a meer Mormo and staring Rodomontade Or else he had utterly forgot what he had designed some moneths before or were asleep to all his present actions or carriages or had been informed with a new soul when he had acted those things which he did afterwards For instances they throng upon us Reader prepare thy horror in his speech to the Committee at Newark

much observed by the English and Protestants yet they harboured not the due suspic on which the demeanors of the other party required because indeed the Protestants imagined the Papists thereby pointed at meant the endeavors of the Irish Comissioners then in England in pursuit of those graces great bounties they afterward obteined frō the King brought over with thē And noted it is that this so strict humilliation and praying was not onely in Ireland but frequently observed by many of the Papists in England The Popes Nuncio directed the like fast to be then in England as appears by the Declaration of the Parliament And yet to the vulgar sort of people therof was not discovered only their Ghostly-Fathers their Priests and Friers to increase and inflame their devotion gave them a hint that strict fasting and diligent fervent prayers must be performed by all Romish Catholiques as they call them for the prosperity of a great design they had in hand And here I cannot pass by but must tender to your consideratiō a Letter found at Preston in Lanca-shire written by a Papist to one Mr. Westhy a Doctor in Phisick of the same Religion Whereby he was not onely enjoined alone but also to stir up the zeal and affection of others Papists to observe a strict constant fast and praying for the prosperity of the Queens good intentions which by the opinions of the Judicious was meant nothing else than the Plot above mentioned But lest I should prove deficient in relating some part of the plot of these incarnate Divels above mentioned I shall desire you to take along with you this known truth See all the depositions under this Head That their design likewise was not to spare any of the English race that were Protestants as in the severall Rebellions before they had likewise resolved to do And that they would deprive of life all irrationall creatures of the English breed as horses cattell sheep swine even very cats and dogs They also designed to annull and destroy all the Laws Customes Civillity Manners and Apparell of the English to deface and spoil all their Churches and all Monuments Records Charters Writings any way relating thereto and either to seize or deface all Forts Castles Holds Houses Towns and all things whatsoever either erected by held or belonging unto the English other Protestants or otherwise tending to civility And lastly to abolish and abjure all English rule dominion Magistracy and government whatsoever But some may say I stay too long in relating their agreements and damned confederacy before I come to their actions 'T is true I do considering the worst of their actions are over otherwise if the execution could not have taken effect untill I had ended the relation of their plot I should choose to be writing thereof Vsque ad necem But the day limited for the beginning their bloudy Massacre viz. the 23 of October 1641. came and then upon a sudden when the innocent hears of the Protestant English seemed to assume to themselves full security These barbarous people like Lions or Tigars generally fell upon them all in all the Counties of the Province of Vlster and in some other Counties of that Land as in some parts of the Provinces of Lemster and Connaght and there committed the unheard of and savage cruelties mentioned in the same examinations some persons onely which indeed are so few that hardly one of forty by strange means or rare convoys See the dep under the Head cont cerning murthers crucltie c. escaped to Dublin or other Garrisons there to recount their miseries From which small number indeed we gathered the account we have of the miserable sufferings of themselves and the rest But howsoever many of the Protestants of the Province of Vlster and other parts were murthered or spoiled at the very first yet because the Lord Macquire Mr. Maghan and the rest of that bloudy crew had failed in the taking of Dublin City and Castle which indeed took them by occasion of that happy discovery at the very instant made by Mr. Owen Connelly unto whom many thousands of us next unto God stand engaged for no lesse than our lives Therefore the Lords Knights Gentlemen and others of the Papists of the Palle being old English and as deep in the confederacy as any of the meer Irish were astonished and for the present at a stand And although they had strong wills and affections according to their bloudy Covenant to second and join with the Northern Irish in their depredations spoiling and massacring of the English Protestants yet were they deterred to shew themselves in action with other confederates untill they had gained some further experience what the successe might be In the mean time because they would encroach and gain as much as possibly they could upon the Lords Justices and Privy-Councel of that land who then had not their Loyalties in suspition knowing them to be so well setled and enriched as they were They in a fawning manner apply themselves to that Counsel This is and wil be justified by all the then Privye Councel of Ireland and I knew it my self to be true seeming much to condole the begun Rebellion and bloudy acts committed by the Irish and withall protesting their harbouring of great fears that they themselves should be spoiled and perish by them unlesse the Councel would afford them some Arms and Ammunition Omitting none of the greatest vows that they were loyal and true to the State and would as formerly their Ancestors had done adventure their fortunes and lives with them and the English Protestants and with them either live or perish upon which carnest protestations the Councel being in that tickle time unwilling to stir jealousies in them furnished many of the chief of those Palle-men with some quantities of Arms and Ammunition for guarding of their houses after assigned them Arms for 300 men for the guarding and defending of the County of Dublin with the like proportion of Arms to raise men for the defending of Meath Lowth Kildare and West-Meath being the five shires of the Palle and all inhabited with old English intending therewith they should resist any further Northern incursion But on the contrary by their underhand bringing in the Irish they shortly after cut off some companies of newly banded English sent from Dublin toward the relief of Droghedah which was done in that ever accounted the most civill part of the Palle Then did the Papists of the Palle esteem it their time to break all faith and go into open rebellion wherein they joined with the meer barbarous bloud-suckers of the North turning the Arms and Ammunition against those from whom so fraudulently they obtained them D. Ro. Maxwel County Armagh And then who more barbarous and sierce than they for then they told that bloud-thirsty yet cowardly Rebell Sir Phelim ô Neal that there was neither room enough nor safety either for him or

the Papists Whereupon though too many were there before yet great swarms of Priests Friers flew into the same three lands out of Spain Italy France Flanders and other places Who were so intent sollicitous close and subtile in their courses as men long bred versed therein That upon their secret and subtile surmises of danger there threatned by the Puritan party as they call them to the Protestant party to their the Romish Religion whose as they pretended subversion was their principall aim much dissention and differences arose and for a long time boiled and burned in the breasts of great numbers some naturally wicked others perhaps onely seduced and surprized ignorantly following the time and their acquaintances that on a sudden after several years spent in broaching and sowing of these jealousies and in preparing of the other provision while the harmelesse Protestant thought least onely hoped to be quiet there were sent out of Spain a strong fleet of ships fully manned with great numbers of Commanders Souldiers and Mariners and as well fraught and furnished with Artilery Arms Amunition Money and all other necessaries for Warre all which were designed for Ireland One half to be landed at Kinsale in the South-west the other half at Killabegges in the North. Howbeit a fierce and strong wind carrying them perforce past the Coast of Ireland into the Narrow Sea the Hollanders fell upon them and as it is well known sunk many took divers yet some escaped This plot thus farre by the great Providence prevented the Rebellion could not then begin in Ireland as indeed it should have done had the fleet as was intended landed there Whereupon afterwards it was further plotted and agreed amongst those Machivillian Factors of Spain and Rome and many other Lay-Papists of England Scotland and Ireland all sworn to secresie and still notwithstanding that their high disaster as much as they could keeping their former plot and resolution on foot That in all those three Lands See the deposition of M. Thomas Crant of the County of Cavan amongst others the Papists should generally rise up in arms upon one set day then to surprise the tower of London in England the Castle of Edenburgh in Scotland and the Castle of Dublin in Ireland with as many more Castles Forts Holds and places of strength as they could possibly feaze upon in all the three Lands And the better to enable themselves to surprise the Castle and City of Dublin it was concluded that twenty Popish Souldiers out of every County of the Land should the night before the time appointed for the taking of Dublin privately make their addresses to that City the Suburbs and other places there about to be in readinesse to assist the taking and spoyling of the same Castle and Citty and to do execution upon the Protestants which numbers of men and many more came thither at the time appointed a great part whereof crept into the City and Suburbs the night before the residue remained about the Ditches Hedges obscure places there as fully appeared on the Greens of that Citty the next morning to the great terror of the honest Citizens And also because they might not want full strength to perform and bear out their design they took occasion to make use of another force raised there upon pretence to be sent to forreign service some of which they practised should be brought up to take shipping at Dublin and thereabout lye in readinesse and the rest to lye in other parts near the Port towns of Ireland all to countenance and back the businesse They taking the advantage of certain Commissions all dated about May 1641 granted by the King to severall Commanders viz. One to Colonell Garret Barrie another to Colonel Tibbot Taaff now Lord Taaff another to Col. Iohn Barrie another to Sir Jeames Dillon all Irish Papists for raising levying for each of these Colonells 1000. menin Ireland out of those men formerly raised in that land by the Earl of Strafford and then lately disbanded The same Commissions purporting that they should be transported for the service of any Forreign Prince in Amitie with the King the rather to free Ireland of them These Commissions were in Iuly afterwards which was about three moneths before the breaking out of the Rebellion brought over and delivered by these Colonels to the Lord Justices and Councel of Ireland whereupon four thousand of the disbanded souldiers aforesaid were raised one Regiment whereof under the comand of the said Colonel Iohn Barrie was brought to the parts near Dublin the rest to other Ports of Ireland and there for a seeming defect of transportation and provision they hanckered and stayed for a good time yet seeming daily to prepare but the Irish Popish Knights and other Burgesses of the Parliament finding the Lord Justices and Councel forward to send them away moved extreamly in the Parliament House that they might not go out of the Land till the Kings pleasure should be further known The Lord Justices and Councel being thus extreamly importuned by the Parliament then grown strong in Irish were drawn to write into England signifying the Parliaments earnest desire therein yet gave no impediment to the going of those Regiments who in truth were sufficiently retarded by the vehement labour of Priests and Jesuites and some of the Parliament Papists amongst those Commanders so as they continued there for the most part till the Rebellion brake out And then perceiving their plot for surprizing of Dublin to be prevented Many Irish and other stangers hovered in England and London and the Suburbs the same time as I have been credibly informed they and all those before mentioned which came out of all the Counties as aforesaid unto and about Dublin dispersed and afterward became dexterous and ready actors in the insuing rebellion And although by divine providence this Plot were prevented in England and Scotland yet how it began and took effect in Ireland is too well known to those many eye witnesses who were inhumanly turned out of their estates and exposed to all the miseries of cold wet and hunger if not for increase of their miseries sharply wounded and maimed and was too well felt by others whose lives were torn and rent from them in this day of visitation appearing by the numerous examinations And before I make mention of the other things which you shall find in the ensuing tract give me leave to say somewhat of that delivered upon Oath by that Reverend and learned Preacher Henry Iones Doctor in Divinity as he heard it expressed and confessed unto him by two Friers Who relateth See the examination of Dr. Henry Iones Com. Dublin 337. dep that howsoever the first breaking out of the fire of this rebellion into a flame began but the 23 of October 1641. yet was it smoaking many years before God having given many glimpses for the discovery of it had they been duly considered or prosecuted to a discovery For